July 3, 2003

• Yesterday

  
  

  On July 2, in various years, authors

  
  

  
  
  • Ernest Hemingway,
    
  • Mario Puzo, and
    
  • Vladimir Nabokov

  
  

  died.  They may serve as a sort of Trinity for those who admire excellence in style, character, and art.

  
  

  Quotations from Papa Hemingway that seem relevant to yesterday’s entry:

  
  

  “Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.”
  – Ernest Hemingway,
     Death in the Afternoon, Ch. 11

  
  

  “There is never any ending to Paris….”
  – Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

  
  

   

  
  

  See also entries of Sept. 27, 2002.
  
  

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